My main interests are in Skepticism, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Wittgenstein, Early Analytic Philosophy, and in the relationship between Analytic and Continental philosophy.
Philosophy of Language
Wittgenstein
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Origins of Analytic Philosophy
- 2011. The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein's Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity. Columbia University Press. 272 pages. ISBN: 978-0-231-15800-8.
- 2007. Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. LIT Verlag. 224 pages. ISBN: 978-3-8258-0259-2.
- 2013. Naturalism and the friends of understanding. Philosophy of the social sciences. 44: 460-477. Published 2013-10-29. doi: 10.1177/0048393113506496
- 2009. Bildung and Decline. Philosophical investigations (Print). 32: 23-43. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9205.2008.01360.x
- 2009. Explanation, wonder, and the cultural point of the Tractatus. Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift. 44: 206-217.
- 2008. Elucidation, Meta-Philosophy, and Hacker's Use of "External Evidence". Journal of Philosophical Research (JPR). 33: 73-99.
- 2008. Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics. Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy. 9: 61-73.
- 2006. The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein's Thought. Review of Metaphysics. LX: 71-100.
- 2004. Ethics and the Tractatus: A resolute failure. Philosophy. 79: 33-35.
- 2004. The Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity. Journal of Philosophical Research (JPR). 29: 267-288.
- 2011. ?30. Dezember 1929, Zu Heidegger: Was Konnte Wittgenstein sich Denken?? in Ungesellige Geselligkeiten/Unsocial Sociabilities,. kapittel, pages 97-118. In:
- 2011. Ungesellige Geselligkeiten/Unsocial Sociabilities. 300 pages. ISBN: 3937262962.
- 2007. Introduction. forord. In:
- 2007. Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. LIT Verlag. 224 pages. ISBN: 978-3-8258-0259-2.
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Books -
Co-editor with Martin Gustafsson and Thomas Schwarz Wenzer Inquiries into the Human: Perspectives from Anthropology and Philosophy Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research, vol 7 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014)
The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity(New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)
Co-editor with Lene Johannessen Considering Class: Essays on The Discourse of the American Dream Lit-Verlag: Berlin, 2007
Papers –
“Quietism or Description? McDowell in Dispute with Dreyfus” The Review of Metaphysics 68 (December 2014) 295-409.
“A Degenerate Case of Action” Forthcoming in Inquiries into the Human: Perspectives from Anthropology and Philosophy. Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research, vol 7 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015)
“Wittgenstein’s Paganism” Forthcoming in Mark Bevir and Andrius Galisanka, eds. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry (Brill Press, 2015)
“Naturalism and the Friends of Understanding” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 44(4), 2014, 460-477
“The Book’s Point is an Ethical One: Ethics in the Tractatus” Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, 2nd ed., Eds. Hans Sluga and David Stern (Cambridge: Cambridge, 2015)
“30. Dezember 1929, Zu Heidegger: Was Konnte Wittgenstein sich Denken?” in Ungesellige Geselligkeiten/Unsocial Sociabilities, ed. Esther Ramharter (Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2011) 97-118
"Explanation, Wonder, and the Cultural Point of the Tractatus”
Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, vol. 44, no. 3-4, 2009, 206-217
“Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics”
Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2. pp. 61-73
“Bildung and Decline”
Philosophical Investigations, 32:1 January, 2009, 23-43
“Elucidation, Meta-Philosophy, and Hacker’s Use of ‘External Evidence’”
Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 33, 2008, 73-99
Co-editor with Lene Johannessen
Considering Class: Essays on The Discourse of the American Dream
Lit-Verlag: Berlin, 2007
“The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein’s Thought”
Review of Metaphysics, September, 2006, Volume LX (1), 71-100
“What Kripke Missed: The Antinomical Structure of the Remarks on Rule-following” Ludwig Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Papers of the Conference on the Occasion of the 115th Anniversaryof his Birth (Sofia, 2005) 22-34
“Ethics and the Tractatus: A Resolute Failure”
Philosophy, January, 2004, Volume 79 (1), 2004, 33-55
“The Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity”
Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 29, 2004, 267-288
AOS: History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Ethics and Culture Skepticism, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of the Social Sciences
AOC: Ethics, Modern Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Kant, Critical Thinking/Logic, Existentialism, Metaphysics, Epistemology, American Philosophy, Heidegger
From 2010 to 2013 I was project leader of the NordForsk Nordic Network for Philosophical Anthropology http://www.philosophicalanthropology.org/
I am currently working on a monograph on skepticism.